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Object-oriented programming has a lot of well-established design principles, such as the SOLID principles, but when moving towards functional programming many developers don’t know how to use ...

Fancy word: encapsulation You can see in the above code sample how the dog object keeps all the properties together. In object-oriented programming, there is a fancy word for this: encapsulation.

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Moving procedural libraries into object-oriented frameworks Porting procedural code, such as C, to an object-oriented framework can be overwhelming to architects new to object-oriented design.

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